wrestling

ACC Champions!

#WolfpackNation was glued to ESPN3 and Twitter on Sunday night! In the end, it was all worth it as NC State captured its first ACC Wrestling Championship since 2007 by finishing ahead of Virginia Tech (90 to 81.5) The 2016 ACC Champions! pic.twitter.com/b0iMRTrTxo — NC State Wrestling (@PackWrestle) March 7, 2016 This is the 15th […]

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Wolfpack Wins Three Championships In One Day

Despite NC State’s absence from the NCAA Tournament, Saturday was a good day for the Wolfpack athletics program, winning individual national championships in wrestling and diving and a conference championship in gymnastics. Wrestler Darrion Caldwell won the NCAA title in the 149 pound class, defeating Iowa’s Brent Metcalf, the defending national champion, by a score […]

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RIP Tab Thacker

N&O Story GoPack’s Tim Peeler Remembers Tab Thacker A mountain of a man, the 1984 NCAA heavyweight champion stood 6-5 and weighed roughly 450 pounds. I say “roughly” because there were only a couple of places where Thacker could weigh-in, and he usually just waited until the NCAA wrestling championships every year to step on […]

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Wolfpacker in WWE

How about this! With no offense to Tab Thacker, NC State’s greatest wrestlers of all-time, Sylvester Turkey, has made the “big time” of his sport. Turkey has been picked up by the WWE. Link to announcement. WWE Signs New Wrestler, Could Be Used For ECW Date Added: May 30, 2006 Story By: Ryan Gray Credit: […]

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